FDA-approved indications include glaucoma, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, congestive heart failure, altitude sickness, periodic paralysis, and epilepsy
Pediatric pseudotumor cerebri
Previously, case reports have linked oral contraceptives to secondary causes of raised intracranial pressure (pseudotumour cerebri); however, more recent literature has shown that they are not associated with increased incidence of
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The role of weight loss and acetazolamide in the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri) Ophthalmology
METHODS - Fourty patients diagnosed as IIH and randomly assigned to treatment with either acetazolamide or topiramate were assessed prospectively
Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) ATRA was held in 30 of the 35 cases (86%) (in some cases after initial attempts to dose reduce), acetazolamide, topiramate, corticosteroids, and analgesics 4,10,28,29
3 Mean spinal pressure declined from 237 mm H 2 O at baseline to 128 mm H 2 O with a low dose (19 mg/kg/d) and 68 mm H 2 O with a high dose (61 mg/kg/d)
, cardiac edema), to decrease CSF production in increased intracranial tension and to alkalinize the urine in renal tubular acidosis
Pseudotumor cerebri is most common in women ages 20 to 50, Acetazolamide is a diuretic as well as a glaucoma drug that lowers the amount of cerebrospinal fluid your body makes
It is thought to lower pressure inside the skull by reducing fluid (CSF) production
The patient's dose of Diamox was increased to 2 gm daily, given that she had papilledema, persistent headaches, transient visual obscurations and pulse synchronous tinnitus